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AT&T recently started a shady marketing tactic that labeled its 4G network as a 5G network. Now, rivals Verizon and T-Mobile are not having any of it. In an open…

Verizon and T-Mobile call out AT&T over fake 5G labels

Daimler-owned ride-hailing company mytaxi will release a fleet of e-scooters in Southern Europe later this year.

Europe’s most popular ride-hailing service is launching e-scooters

Berlin based Internet of Things (IoT) startup relayr, whose middleware platform is geared towards helping industrial companies unlock data insights from their existing machinery and production line kit by linking…

Munich Re buys IoT middleware startup, relayr, in deal worth $300M

T-Mobile is getting into the paid TV business, with the acquisition of Layer3 TV, a TV tech company, and plans announced to launch its own offering sometime next year. T-Mobile’s…

T-Mobile plans pay TV service in 2018 fueled by Layer3 TV acquisition
Startups

WICASTR brings data to the edge

7:57 am PST • December 4, 2017

Content distribution is hard. You want to keep enough of it close enough to favorite customers so they don’t have to wait and reduce latency for new data. That’s why…

WICASTR brings data to the edge

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the Facebook-backed open-source hardware and software group of over 450 telecom stakeholders like Broadcom, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica, SK Telecom and Juniper Networks, today announced…

Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project adds a new focus on millimeter wave tech for 5G

The Budapest Transport Authority (BKK, in Hungarian) recently launched an online payment system with the help of a T-Systems Hungary, Deutsche Telekom’s consulting arm. The system, which took three months…

Hungarian hacker arrested for pressing F12

The abolition of mobile roaming charges across the European Union by the middle of this year looks almost certain now, after the region’s executive body, parliament and representatives of the…

Europe ready to hang up on mobile roaming fees by mid-June

Internet of things news in the wake of CES is a bold move, but Roambee isn’t letting the over-saturation of connected everything (hairbrushes!) get in the way of its mission to take…

Roambee adds $3.1M and a partner to help businesses monitor assets in real-time

Recently, T-Mobile came under fire for its new One plan. For those of you unaware, T-Mobile’s original One plan gave you unlimited on-device data, but only 480p resolution was covered…

T-Mobile tweaks their One unlimited plans but they still might confuse you

Google today announced that it has added U.S. Cellular, one of the larger regional carriers in the U.S., to its Project Fi network. U.S. Cellular joins Google’s existing network partners…

Google adds U.S. Cellular’s network to extend Project Fi’s coverage

Europe’s Competition Commission has blocked a proposed merger that would have seen the number of major carriers in the UK mobile market reduced from four to three.

Europe blocks O2-Three carrier merger in the UK

The Israeli military’s massive relocation of its prestigious technology units, the presence of multinational and local companies, a close proximity to Ben Gurion University and generous government subsidies are turning…

Israel’s desert city of Beersheba is turning into a cybertech oasis

That didn’t take long. Telegram launched just two and a half years ago and is today announcing at Mobile World Congress 2016 it has 100,000,000 monthly active users. Shortly after…

Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Hits 100M Monthly Active Users, 350k New Users Each Day

Well that was quick. Europe’s controversial new net neutrality rules haven’t even come into force yet and German mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom is suggesting it intends to charge startups to…

Carrier DT Targets Startups After Europe Agrees Net Neutrality Rules

Mojio, a connected car platform based around a small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car’s OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The new…

Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform

Are we headed for yet more price wars in the world of cloud computing? Amazon and Google have made huge inroads into the market on the back of deep discounts and generous…

Deutsche Telekom Ties Up With Huawei In Growing Amazon/Google Cloud Rivalry

As Airbnb continues to work through negotiations with hotel and housing regulators in some markets, it’s not wasting any time in building out its footprint globally. The accommodation rental juggernaut is partnering with…

Airbnb Teams With Deutsche Telekom To Preinstall App, Offer $35 Vouchers In Europe

Update: A Mozilla spokesperson has been in touch to say that the WSJ has misunderstood what Mozilla and DT are doing and they are not launching a phone, just working together. “It…

No, T-Mobile And Mozilla Are Not Launching A New ‘Privacy Phone’ [Updated]

Major consolidation moves are underway in the UK mobile market. As expected, UK carrier BT has agreed to buy mobile carrier EE for £12.5 billion ($19 billion). BT has been talking…

UK’s BT Agrees To Buy Mobile Carrier EE For $19B

Deutsche Telekom is stepping up its game in the world of startup investing and tapping into the growing tech ecosystem coming out of its home country. Today the carrier, owner…

Deutsche Telekom Launches A $620M Fund For German Startups And PE Deals

With the consumer-facing cloud storage space getting ever more crowded — Apple announced its own iCloud Drive offering just last month — Dropbox has not been sitting on its laurels,…

Dropbox Does Carrier Deal To Be Preloaded On Handsets In Europe

A whole host of connected hardware accelerators have cropped up in the last year in Europe and beyond, and now hub:raum, Deutsche Telekom’s incubator, wants in on the action. It’s…

Deutsche Telekom’s Incubator Launches IoT Bootcamp. Because Hardware.

Evernote, which now has 4 million users in Europe, is stepping up its bid to pick up more. Today the company is announcing a new deal with Deutsche Telekom to…

Evernote, Deutsche Telekom Expand Freemium Partnership To Cover 12 Markets, 57M Users

Another chapter is opening up for Twitter in its ongoing push to grow its international business: today the newly-public company is kicking off a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom, the…

Twitter Inks Deal With Deutsche Telekom To Bring On More International Users, Expand Marketing And Ads

Mobile security company Lookout may be all about protecting user’s devices and offering people more privacy, but today it’s raising its own profile a little bit more. The startup is announcing…

Cloud Security: Mobile Startup Lookout Gets $55M Led By Deutsche Telekom To Go Global & Target Enterprise

Say what you will about Dish Networks, but the Colorado company’s brass has some moxie. The satellite media service provider has been trying for years now to link up with…

Dish Network Chairman Said To Be Seeking A Merger With T-Mobile USA

T-Mobile USA is embarking on a new strategy to claw back market share from Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, and today the carrier released some numbers that should help it set…

T-Mobile Gets Its ‘Un-carrier’ iPhone Assault Off To A Running Start With 579k New Users In Q1

Evernote, the popular note taking and personal organizer app, today took another step in its strategy to ramp up its international presence, with news that it has inked a strategic…

Evernote Looks For Int’l Growth, Inks Strategic Partnership With Deutsche Telekom, Starting With 1-Year Premium Accounts In Germany

Fon, the crowdsourced wi-fi hotspot provider that uses technology allowing people to securely share their home broadband connections, has announced a partnership with German telco Deutsche Telekom to build what…

Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Hotspot Provider Fon Partners With Deutsche Telekom To “Blanket” Germany With 2.5M+ Hotspots By 2016